One of Charlie Chaplin’s original Tramp costumes is part of the “Becoming Los Angeles” exhibition at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. Chaplin himself donated this costume to the NHM. The exhibition explores L.A.’s Native Americans, colonists, and settlers; rancheros, citrus growers and oil barons; captains of industry, boosters, and radicals; filmmakers, innovators, and more!
For more information, visit the Natural History Museum website.
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**Théâtre LeSilo, Montoire sur le Loir, France, 12 to 20 January 2013**
Annie Chaplin pays homage to her father at her theatre, LeSilo, with a special exhibition and screenings of some of his greatest films: The Great Dictator, The Circus and The Gold Rush.
For full programme details, please visit the website of the Théâtre LeSilo.
The Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts in Moscow (ex House of Photography) will be hosting the famous Chaplin exhibition, Chaplin in Pictures, from 29 November 2012 until 17 February 2013. http://www.mamm-mdf.ru/en/exhibitions/chaplin-in-pictures/
If you want to see the original Tramp costume, it is currently on display with many other Hollywood film costumes at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London until 27 January 2013. See the V&A website for details.
If you can’t make it to London, you can still check out the V&A’s iphone/ipad app, available on itunes.
Two of Chaplin’s films, A Woman of Paris and Monsieur Verdoux are part of the exhibition Paris vu par Hollywood at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris until 15 December 2012. Free entrance. http://www.paris.fr/hollywood
If you happen to be in Madrid between now and 5 January 2013, stop by the Fundación Canal to see 20 photographs of Chaplin in the exhibition, Mitografías - Mitos en la Intimidad. The exhibition aims to provide an original, close and personal vision of some of the 20th century’s most outstanding individuals through a collection of about 250 intimate, private, personal and family images largely unseen before by the general public.
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The other nine personalities in the exhibition are Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Camilo José Cela, Ernest Hemingway and María Callas. Free entrance. See the Fundación Canal’s website for further details.
A clip from Limelight is currently featured in the exhibition, Music and Action at the Centro José Guerrero in Granada, Spain. The exhibition will run until 13 January 2012. http://www.fundacioncanal.com/6368/ficha-mitografias/?par=exposiciones
From 26 October 2012 until 20 January 2013, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland is hosting an exhibition called, The Angels of Klee. Klee’s works are surrounded by twelve video and photography installations by artists from the 1920’s up to the present, including a sequence of the film The Kid by Charlie Chaplin. See the Zentrum Paul Klee’s website for further details.
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An exhibition drawing on new family material
To arrive in Brazil the 19th October in L’Instituto Tomie Ohtake
The exhibition includes original photographs, film posters, production notes, press cuttings, extracts from Chaplin’s films, contemporary newsreel footage, makings-of, rushes, and other archival material relating to the exhibition. In addition, we have access, via the family archives, to hitherto unpublished negatives, often 8x10, whose quality will allow for new, large format prints.
The recent cinema and DVD success of restored versions of “The Great Dictator” and “Modern Times” raises the issue of the contemporary relevance of the work of Charles Chaplin, who was born in London in 1889 and died in Switzerland in 1977, aged 88. True, the sheer staying-power of the Chaplin shorts as TV fare has ensured continuity between successive generations of viewers; and the Little Tramp image remains in constant use the world over, from America to Japan, as a symbol of the clash between man and machine, the confrontation with dictatorship and all the anachronistic grace of pantomime. This exhibition, however, seeks to go beyond the conventional portrait by drawing on the Chaplin family archives and their wealth of largely unknown documentation.
There exists a mass of subsidiary material relating to Chaplin’s films and life, and by tying this in with extracts on video we can actually show the artist at work. Where did the Little Tramp character come from? What kind of parts did he mostly play ? What comedy situations recur from film to film ? Beginning with the birth of the Little Tramp, the exhibition moves on to the elaboration of a gag via footage showing the enormous amount of work that could go into a sequence lasting only a few seconds. Comparisons with the Little Tramp’s successors “Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot, for example” offer real insight into the Chaplin comic style and its legacy.
While the Little Tramp is without doubt the 20th century’s best-loved single character, it should not be forgotten that he was also an emblematic figure for the 1920s avant-garde. The press coverage of the time points up this dual success, as does the work of artists as different as Moholy-Nagy, Erwin Blumenfeld and Robert Doisneau. Born into the poverty of working-class London, Chaplin conquered America as it was becoming the most powerful nation in the world: how to explain this daydream come true? The exhibition closes with the end of the artistic growing-up period, the moment when the Little Tramp becomes an adult: confronted with Hitler, Chaplin set out to replace the dictator with a Jewish barber; but then looked his viewers right in the eye, as if to address the whole of human kind.
Paris, France
At The Jeu de Paume gallery from June 7th to September 18th 2005
Kunsthal, Rotterdam
From October 2005 to January 2006.
Hamburg, Germany
At the Deichtorhallen from February 2006 to end of May 2006.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Musée de L’Elysée from June 15th to September 24th 2006.
Musée de L’Elysée
18, avenue de L’Elysée
Tel: + 41 21 316 99 11
Bruxelles, Belgium
At Le Botanique From 12 October to 31 December 2006
Centre culturel de la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles
rue Royale, 236
Bruxelles 1210 - Belgium
Montpellier, France
At “Le Pavillon de l’image” From February to April 2007
2 place de Ptronque
3400 Montpellier
Bologna, Italia
At Sala Bostra From June 2nd to October 30th 2007
Madrid, Spain
At Caixa Forum Madrid From July 2 to October 19 2008
Paseo del Prado, 36. 28014 Madrid
In Lisbon
At Palacio da Quintanilh
From September 4 to October 4 2008
In the [Lisbon Village Festival]
Rua Tierno Galvan – Torre 3, Sala 405
1070-274 LISBOA | PORTUGAL
Tel +351 21 0190922 | Tlm +351 917 580 956
Email: lisbon@villagefestival.net
Mexico
at the Salón Juárez del Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco.
The Giant Fresque created by Franck Bouroullec in Chaplin’s honor, on the towers of Gilamont next to his latest house, is going to be inaugurated october the 8th by Jamel Debbouze a famous french standup comedian.
You can peek at some pictures on this swiss press release and Bouroullec’s website
Visit the Chaplin section of the London Film Museum.
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In the same part of London where Charlie grew up, you can learn about the early music hall stars who influenced Chaplin’s work, and watch fantastic Pathé footage of some of them synched with recordings of their songs. See Charlie’s childhood homes and schools, and details of his early UK stage career.
Devised by Leslie Hardcastle, creator of the prizewinning Museum of the Moving Image (1989-1998), in collaboration with David Robinson, Chaplin’s biographer, the exhibition tells Chaplin’s story in six main sections, evoking consecutive phases of his dramatic rise from rags to riches.
The London Film Museum, based in County Hall, has been growing rapidly ever since it opened in 2008. This new exhibition marks a major investment by the museum to produce a spectacular tribute to a great Londoner who they say “remains the single most outstanding figure in all film history. “
The Charlie Chaplin - The Great Londoner exhibition will be a permanent feature and entry is included in the admission price of the London Film Museum.
County Hall, Riverside Building London London SE1 7PB
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Cami Exhibition
Cami, The man who made Charlie Chaplin laugh…
From early June till late September the Museum “De La Charité sur Loire”:http://www.cg58.fr/a-votre-service/publications/les-publications-des-musees-de-la-nievre/musee-de-la-charite-sur-loire.html is commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Cami, for half a century France’s most popular and prolific comic author, hailed by Chaplin as “the greatest humorist in the world” madcap novelist, serial-and-sketch-writer (for the press, stage and radio), cartoonist, illustrator, songwriter, librettist, punster and all-round funny man…
Musée De La Charité sur Loire
33, rue des Chapelains
58400 La Charité-sur-Loire
France
“Click here for more”:http://www.cg58.fr/a-votre-service/publications/les-publications-des-musees-de-la-nievre/musee-de-la-charite-sur-loire.html